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A consortium of companies including Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Meebo and more announced tonight that it will launch a new system on Monday that will let website owners discover which social networks a site visitor uses and prompt them automatically to log-in and share with friends on those network.

Nokia has announced it will bring social networking to the masses on its freshly minted C3, C6 and E5 phones. This comes just a day after Microsoft did the same for mobile Windows users, and Sony Ericsson is promising to catch up. The Nokia phones will communcate with Facebook and Twitter, as well as Ovi Mail and Chat. Meanwhile, Sony Ericsson's Spiro and Zylo add Walkman branding to the inevitable Facetwit connections, as money ceases to be a barrier to social networking.

Microsoft unveils a phone called "Kin" which the firm says has been made for those who live their lives online.

Divvyshot, a photo-sharing start-up, said it had received an offer from Facebook it couldn't refuse.

Developed and powered by Vitrue, the new page puts the App Store inside Facebook — making it easy to search for apps, share them with friends, find out which apps are hot right now and which are deemed “essential” by the iTunes editors.

Facebook on Friday proposed creating a way for people to add their locations to Facebook pages but released almost no details about how the feature will work.

Sorting through all kinds of filings and other technical gobbledygook, the guys at the Private Equity Data Center say their new best guess for Facebook's internal valuation is $35 billion.

Facebook is considering installing a "panic button" on its site to allow users to report suspected pedophiles, it has confirmed.

Social networking platform Facebook racked up the most U.S. hits on its Web site last week, edging past search giant Google to be the country's most-visited site for that period, according to data from research firm Hitwise.

With the integration of online social networks into our everyday lives, past relationships can pop back into your life as quick and unexpected as a new email in your Inbox or a Friend Request on Facebook. Because of this...